The Celebrity Series of Boston presents the Viano Quartet performing works by Haydn, Mendelssohn, Webern, and Shostakovich 3 p.m. November 2 at Groton Hill Music’s Meadow Hall. celebrityseries.org ...

Opening with the gauzy halo of Rachmaninoff’s “Bogoroditse Djevo,” the Back Bay Chorale ushered its near-capacity audience ...

For many pianists, the musical, intellectual, and physical rigors of J. S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations are such that the music doesn’t require any programmatic assistance. Yunchan Lim, however, isn’t ...

Try though they might, not every season opener qualifies as a bona fide “event.” But Music Worcester’s did on Friday night. With the Philip Glass Ensemble on hand to curate a selection of the iconic ...

Who says old dogs can’t learn new tricks? The Boston Symphony Orchestra—now in its 144 th season—trotted out a fresh one with conductor Dima Slobodeniouk on Thursday night: eschewing the usual ...

Composers can’t always be trusted to objectively assess their own works. However, William Walton’s appraisal of his Cello Concerto holds up: “It is to my mind the best of my three concertos,” he wrote ...

Beware of ideas, Joseph Stalin once warned: they are more powerful than guns. “We would not let our enemies have guns,” he went on. “Why should we let them have ideas?” That statement might make a ...

The end of a matter, the writer of Ecclesiastes tells us, is better than its beginning. Though that reality isn’t borne out in every situation, the sentiment largely applies to Beethoven’s nine ...

Genius, Edison told us, is mostly the result of hard work. Too much of it, though, can lead to deleterious ends: as Jan Swafford’s recent biography convincingly argues, overwork played an outsized ...

In the common telling, Erich Wolfgang Korngold was, like Felix Mendelssohn before him, born a genius only to die a talent. The reality, while far more complex, is, ultimately, kinder: Korngold’s ...

For many conductors, Beethoven’s Violin Concerto is an expression of romantic reverie. But Benjamin Zander views this often-heard work less as a virtuosic showpiece than an extension of Mozartean ...

The Handel and Haydn Society might be the country’s oldest performing arts institution, but it certainly is projecting—and performing with–the vigor of youth this week. On Monday, the ensemble ...